Quebec's Student Strike (Oct 4, 7pm)

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Spreading the Maple Spring: Lessons from Quebec's Student Strike

Thursday, October 4, 7pm

University of Victoria

Room A120, Social Sciences and Math Building

Part of a Cross-Canada Speaking Tour

The October 4 UVIC event will feature:

-Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois, former spokesperson for CLASSE

-Cloé Zawadzki-Turcotte, a former member of CLASSE's executive and a key

organizer behind the strike

-Ethan Cox, rabble.ca's Quebec correspondent and a former student organizer

Admission by donation.

Local sponsors: UVIC Social Justice Studies, Victoria Voice.

Fighting for Education and Against Austerity Together

The forum will address what happened in Quebec, but also how the

hard-earned lessons of the longest student strike in Canadian history can

be applied to organizing across the country. We hope to be able to build

bridges of solidarity with movements in other parts of Canada, ties that

are critical to mounting a truly national movement against Stephen Harper

and austerity.

For CLASSE, the largest of the student unions involved in the Quebec

student strike, this victory is merely the start of the next fight. And

that fight is against austerity, in all its forms. More importantly, that

fight is to not only oppose assaults on our social welfare, but to build a

better society.

The tour runs from Sept. 29 to Oct. 5, with events in London, ON, Toronto,

Saskatoon, Regina, Winnipeg, Victoria and Vancouver. For information on all

events please visit:

National tour sponsors: rabble.ca, CEP, LeadNow.ca.

For more information, please email der...@rabble.ca

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